Nicolaou, You said “Which is just how the Universe would
appear if there were no god in it.”
That is exactly my point is—God gives opportunity for
everyone to make his own conclusion. When I first heard there are over 7500
variety of apple, I drew the conclusion that it is all because there is Father
Figure that takes care of more than just the sustenance, and my faith in Him
has only been reinforced further and further as the time passed. Yet the same
knowledge may give different conclusion to another person.
Forget about apple. Let us take the case of vast sky towards
which all are drawn, a common meeting place so to say, and people seem to look
up instinctively either in thanksgiving or in trouble. Ironically enough, it is
also a place where scientific search and religious faith seem to coalesce
naturally.
In trying to comprehend the vastness of the universe, we
would realize that it is our heart (not ego) that we need to expand like the
sky—something mythologist Joseph Campbell intelligently grasped. This is what
God wants—each one should make his own conclusion, and Joseph Campbell got it
correctly. If he got it, it means everyone else also can get it if they want
to.
